About
Maryam Kashani is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at the Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Her research interests encompass racial, ethnic, and religious diasporas, transnational political movements, gender and sexuality, Islam and Muslim communities, visual anthropology, documentary and experimental filmmaking, visual culture and the senses, as well as knowledge, ethics, and power, along with new media forms and methods. She has contributed to academic discourse through her publications, including a book titled "Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival" and various journal articles that explore themes such as anti-racist praxis, Muslim communities in the United States, and racialization processes. Kashani has also produced visual works, including films and installations, that engage with her research themes. She is actively involved in teaching courses related to gender, representation, feminist theory, Asian American media and film, and liberation theories, and holds additional campus affiliations in gender and women's studies, anthropology, criticism and interpretive theory, and South Asian and Middle Eastern studies.
Research topics
- Political Science
- Nursing
- Medicine
- Geology
- Social psychology
- Law
- Statistics
- Pathology
- Oceanography
- Psychology
Selected publications
Research Square · 2025-07-30
reviewOpen accessSenior authorBMC Nursing · 2025-10-22 · 3 citations
reviewOpen accessSenior authorFamily caregivers of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) play a pivotal role in day-to-day care and disease management. This scoping review aims to identify, describe, and map the needs of family caregivers of patients with COPD worldwide. For the purposes of this review, caregiver “needs” refer to requirements that support caregivers’ ability to provide care and maintain their own well-being, including informational, emotional/psychological, practical (skills and daily care tasks), social, financial, respite, and navigation/support-service needs. The primary research question guiding this scoping review is: What are the needs of family caregivers of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)? This review will be conducted following the methodological framework outlined by the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) for scoping reviews. The eligibility criteria will be determined using the Population, Concept, and Context (PCC) framework. A comprehensive search will be carried out in electronic databases including MEDLINE via PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, as well as Persian scientific databases and grey literature sources, covering studies published up to May 2024 without language restrictions. Two independent reviewers will screen and select studies for inclusion. A standardized data extraction form, developed specifically for this review, will be used to collect relevant information. Data will be analyzed thematically to identify and categorize the various needs of family caregivers. Findings will be synthesized and presented through tables, figures, and narrative summaries to highlight key themes and gaps in the existing literature. This research does not entail the participation of human or animal subjects. All data utilized will be extracted exclusively from existing published literature. The findings generated from this study are intended for dissemination through submission to an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal, as well as presentation at scientific conferences focused on copd care giver needs.
PLoS ONE · 2025-08-01
articleOpen accessCorrespondingINTRODUCTION: Proper and effective public education during epidemics of infectious diseases can have a key effect in controlling epidemics and reducing their complications. Therefore, the present study aims to assess public education methods during infectious disease epidemics from the perspectives of both the public and experts in Iran. METHOD: The present study is a mixed-methods (quantitative-qualitative) with a parallel convergent design conducted in 2024 in Iran. The public's views on the effectiveness, strengths, and weaknesses of each method used for educating people during epidemics, with a focus on the COVID-19 epidemic, were collected through a self-development valid and reliable questionnaire (with closed and open-ended questions). Quantitative data was analyzed using SPSS:16 software. In the qualitative section, data were collected by semi-structured interviews and manually analyzed using content analysis methods. RESULTS: Television (79.9%), social networks (78.8%), and websites (78.5%) were introduced as sources that have performed best, provided various information and education, had a high impact on the audience, and successfully gained people's trust during epidemics of infectious diseases. In the qualitative section, the majority of participants identified in-person training as the most effective method of educating people. Utilizing the capacities of mass media and providing accurate information to the public were strengths, while dissemination of false and unscientific information and lack of trust in relevant institutions were identified as weaknesses in educating people during epidemics of infectious diseases. CONCLUSION: In this study, an attempt was made to provide comprehensive and sufficient information for decision-making and effective planning for public education in the next epidemics of infectious diseases.
Innovative services in home health nursing: a scoping review protocol
BMJ Open · 2024-03-01
reviewOpen accessINTRODUCTION: Advances in the use of technology in home health nursing (HHN) not only can facilitate the delivery of home care but can also influence the entire healthcare system. Additionally, it can contribute to the individual autonomy in the area of health. The aim of this scoping review protocol is to identify, describe and map the types of innovative services and their delivery approaches in the HHN structure worldwide. METHODS AND ANALYSIS: The main question of the research is as follows: what are different types of innovative services and their delivery approaches in the HHN structure around the world? The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) method for scoping reviews will guide the conducting this scoping review, and the participants, concept and context framework will be used as eligibility criteria. MEDLINE databases via PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus, Web of Science, Science Direct, Persian scientific databases and grey literature will be searched prior to May 2024 to include eligible studies, without any language restrictions. To be included, studies will be reviewed by two independent reviewers. A data extraction form developed for the study purpose will be used to extract the data relevant to the review questions. Data analysis will be performed based on each innovative service and answering the subquestions about it. According to the concepts of interest, the results will be analysed and presented using tables, figures, images and a narrative summary. ETHICS AND DISSEMINATION: This study will not involve human or animal participants. Data will be sourced from the published literature. To be published, the results of the study will be submitted to an international peer-reviewed, open-access journal as well as scientific meetings on HHN and innovative services research.
Muslim Theologies and the Struggle for Abolition
Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies · 2024-01-01
article1st authorCorrespondingAbstract: Believers Bail Out is a Muslim abolitionist collective that bails Muslims out of pretrial and immigration incarceration and uses the issue of money bail to educate and mobilize Muslim communities to join the struggle for abolition of the prison industrial complex. By articulating this struggle as a form of jihad , this essay reclaims the Islamic word-concept for liberation from all forms of policing and oppression.
2023-08-25
book1st authorCorrespondingFrom the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic scenes, Maryam Kashani demonstrates how sociopolitical forces and geopolitical agendas shape Muslim ways of knowing and being. Throughout, Kashani argues that contemporary Islam emerges from the specificities of the Bay Area, from its landscapes and infrastructures to its Muslim liberal arts college, mosques, and prison courtyards. Theorizing the Medina by the Bay as a microcosm of socioeconomic, demographic, and political transformations in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries, Kashani resituates Islam as liberatory and abolitionist theory, theology, and praxis for all those engaged in struggle.
Critical Ethnic Studies · 2023-06-29
article1st authorCorrespondingChapter 5 Epistemologies of the Oppressor and the Oppressed
2023-08-31
book-chapter1st authorCorresponding2023-08-31
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingLeiden University Press eBooks · 2023-12-31
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Frequent coauthors
- 4 shared
Parisa Bozorgzad
- 4 shared
Daryadokht Masror Roudsary
Iran University of Medical Sciences
- 4 shared
Mohammadreza Asgari
Iranshahr University
- 4 shared
Hosein Asghari
Iranshahr University
- 2 shared
Fateme Eshghi
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
- 2 shared
Nima Pourgholamamiji
Iranshahr University
- 2 shared
Toktam Kianian
Iran University of Medical Sciences
- 2 shared
Leila Janani
Imperial College London
Labs
Education
PhD student, Nursing
Iran University of Medical Sciences
- 2020
M.sc, Medical surgical nursing
Iran University of Medical Sciences
- 2016
B.Sc, nursing
Semnan University of Medical Sciences
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